Gatehouse Farmhouse
GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182408
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1182408
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Syleham
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19224 77386
Details
SYLEHAM TM 17 NE 4/113 Gatehouse Farmhouse - ( formerly listed as The Laurels) 29.7.55 GV II*
Farmhouse. Mid C16 with C17 service addition to rear forming L-shape plan. Restored 1975-85. Timber framed, mainly plastered; exposed close studding to left gable, colourwashed brick to right gable end. Pantiled roofs except front slope of main range which is plaintiled. 2 storeys and attic. 3-cell form. 3 windows, mid C20 large-paned casements. Lobby entrance with mid C20 boarded and battened door. To the rear there are 3 large original windows with fine roll-moulded mullions, in an unusually good state of preservation; other similar windows are blocked and visible internally. A smaller first floor window has cavetto mullions. Internal stack with original plain shaft. 2-storey rear wing with some slatted windows; internal stack. Both hall and parlour have fine ceilings with multiple roll mouldings to bridging beams and joists. The service end, which was originally divided into 2, also has moulded joists, but these are concealed. In the rear wall, part of an arched doorway into the cross-passage. In the parlour a small blocked external doorway with 4-centre arched head whose function is unclear. Some exposed studding, mainly in later wing. Newel stairs in both wings. The roof over the main range has clasped and butt purlins with arched wind-bracing.
Listing NGR: TM1922277388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280062
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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